Profession: Foreign – Asen Balikci Portrait Program

Asen Balikci (1929-2019), a multicultural visual anthropologist, was an internationally recognised academic, a pioneer of visual anthropology, a leading figure in North American anthropology and the study of different cultures all over the world. He worked in places as diverse as Canada’s extreme North, Afghanistan, Siberia, Mexico and the Sikkim region in the Himalayas and his adoptive country, Bulgaria.
The initiator, curator and moderator of this program is Dina Iordanova, professor of Film Studies at the University of St. Andrews. She has published extensively on matters of Eastern European and Balkan cinema and on global film industries.